Get Today's Records

Hello, I have a query that needs to run daily and only collect records for
that day's activity. The table has a date/time field called TranDateSold.
Could someone please advise the proper syntax for the following logic:
SELECT * FROM tablename
WHERE TranDateSold (is today only)
I experimented with GETDATE() but it seemed to want to match today's date
and time to the hour and minute. Any ideas would be most appreciated.Hi,
Strip the time portion from the date returned by getdate() function before
comparison. Something like this:
select *
from tablename
where trandatesold = convert(vachar(8), getdate(), 112)
This assumes that the time is already zero-ed in trandatesold column.
hth,
Dean
"Pancho" <Pancho@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, I have a query that needs to run daily and only collect records for
> that day's activity. The table has a date/time field called TranDateSold.
> Could someone please advise the proper syntax for the following logic:
> SELECT * FROM tablename
> WHERE TranDateSold (is today only)
> I experimented with GETDATE() but it seemed to want to match today's date
> and time to the hour and minute. Any ideas would be most appreciated.|||Try this
SELECT * FROM tablename
WHERE TranDateSold = DATEADD(d, DATEDIFF(d, 0, GETDATE())+0, 0)
Denis the SQL Menace
http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/|||> Hello, I have a query that needs to run daily and only collect records for
> that day's activity. The table has a date/time field called TranDateSold.
If there can be nothing in the future:
DECLARE @.dt SMALLDATETIME
SET @.dt = 0 + DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, GETDATE());
SELECT <col_list> FROM tablename
WHERE TranDateSold >= @.dt;
If there may be future-dated rows:
SELECT <col_list> FROM tablename
WHERE TranDateSold >= @.dt
AND TranDateSold < @.dt + 1;
A|||Oops, I goofed the = should be >=|||This will only work if TranDateSold is intentionally stored with no time
value. Otherwise you will be asking for rows where '2006-04-21 13:26' =
'2006-04-21 00:00';
If you have to do the convert on the left-hand side to get rid of the time
component, you've just wiped out any chance of using an index.
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"SQL" <denis.gobo@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Try this
> SELECT * FROM tablename
> WHERE TranDateSold = DATEADD(d, DATEDIFF(d, 0, GETDATE())+0, 0)
> Denis the SQL Menace
> http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/
>|||Thanks to everyone for your posts. The convert function is what I needed fo
r
my vendor, and the DECLARE stmt gave me all records after midnight today.
Have a nice wend, Pancho.
"Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" wrote:

> If there can be nothing in the future:
> DECLARE @.dt SMALLDATETIME
> SET @.dt = 0 + DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, GETDATE());
> SELECT <col_list> FROM tablename
> WHERE TranDateSold >= @.dt;
> If there may be future-dated rows:
> SELECT <col_list> FROM tablename
> WHERE TranDateSold >= @.dt
> AND TranDateSold < @.dt + 1;
> A
>
>